Talebula Kate
11 June, 2021, 3:30 pm
FNU s Explain the Science panel discussion chaired by the College of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences (CMNHS) Dr Donald Wilson. Picture: SUPPLIED
Videos circulating of people placing magnets that stick onto their site of injection after being injected with the COVID-19 vaccine were ‘trickery’.
Epidemiologist and paediatrician Professor Fiona Russel noted this during the first of a series of virtual panel discussions regarding COVID-19, the vaccine, the COVID test and questions related to the pandemic and prevention efforts – hosted by Fiji National University’s (FNU), College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (CMNHS).
“There is nothing in there that could cause magnetic forces,” Prof Russel said.
This 2021 Recommendation Statement from the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends that clinicians offer pregnant persons effective behavioral counseling
Rohit Deo
14 May, 2021, 7:30 am
(Standing middle, L-R) Dr Gade Waqa, Dr Donald Wilson and Dr Jacqui Webster with other collaborative members. Picture: SUPPLIED
The current average daily salt intake in Fiji is 11.7 grams, which is more than twice the World Health Organisation recommended level of five grams a day.
This, according to a collaborative research project by the Fiji National University that states a minimal government investment in reducing salt intake could prevent 234 heart attacks and 72 strokes, resulting in 131 Fijian lives saved, and saving the government nearly $2million each year.
The study – ‘The Potential Impact of Salt Reduction in Fiji’ – was carried out by Health Technology Analysts as part of a collaboration between the Pacific Research Centre for the Prevention of Obesity and Non-Communicable Diseases (C-POND), a WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention and Management at the Fiji Institute of Pacific Health Research (FIPHR), the research
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